Nashville State Bank v. Weiser

The opinion of the court was delivered by .

Dawson, J.:

Plaintiff bank brought an action to recover on a note for $222 executed by defendant.

*390Defendant answered that the note was a renewal of one given in consideration of a policy of life insurance which defendant had applied for but never received. Another consideration was to have been a $100 certificate of stock in the insurance corporation and that had not been received. Defendant also alleged that the plaintiff’s cashier, Hemphill, was working in connection with one Higgins, agent of the insurance company—

“That Hemphill was fully cognizant…